He Sen is an artist entirely committed to the medium of painting, which he uses to explore the human condition in his powerful and atmospheric works. He Sen is particularly concerned with the dilemmas facing China’s youth as they grow up in a society that is changing so fast.
He Sen graduated from the painting department of the Sichuan academy of Fine Arts in 1989. The early 1990s saw him paint still lives, which, despite lacking a direct human presence, were filled with traces of the China’s new “modern” youth: cassettes, cigarette packets, trainers. He Sen then began featuring people as his subject matter, culminating in a series of paintings depicting snapshots of brightly coloured and slightly surreal TV studios. Since these earlier works He Sen has abandoned the knife and started using the brush to depict his subjects, the details of his paintings are thus much finer and the surfaces smoother, giving the works a different feel.
“HE SEN SOLO EXHIBITION”, Marella Art Contemporary,Milano, Italy
“PRAGUE BIENNALE 2”, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
“THE SECOND TRIENNIAL OF CHINESE ART”, The Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
“11+1: CROWDS AND VOIDS”, Art Scene Warehouse, Shanghai, China
“CHINA’S PHOTOGRAPHIC PAINTING”, China Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China
“HUAJIADI”, China Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing, China
“NEW PERSPECTIVES IN CHINESE PAINTING”, Marella Art Contemporary, Milano, Italy
“THE 1st NOMINATIVE EXHIBITION OF FINE ARTS LITERATURE”, Hubei Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Wuhan, China
“BEIJING CHONGQING SHANGHAI – PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY”, Gallery Karin Sachs, Munich, Germany
“POST-REVOLUTION AND NEW GENERATION”, Chinablue Gallery, Beijing, China
“MODERNIZATION AND URBANIZATION”, Opening ‘Seoul-Asia Art Now’ Exhibition, Marronnier Art Center, Seoul, Korea
“YOUTH-CRUELTY”, ddmwarehouse, Shanghai, China
“GOLDEN HARVEST – CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ART”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
“UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT”, Chengdu Contemporary Arts Museum, Chengdu, China
“1st CHENGDU BIENNALE”, Chengdu Contemporary Arts Museum, Chengdu, China
“EXHIBITION OF THE COLLECTION OF SHANGHAI ART MUSEUM”, Shanghai, China
“INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY IN ART”, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou; Shanghai Art Fair, China; Melbourne Art Fair, Australia
“ACADEMIC EXHIBITION”, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
“SHARP NEW SIGHT FROM YOUNG ARTISTS BORN AROUND 1970”, Beijing; Shanghai Art Fair, Shanghai, China
“URBAN IDEALIST – NEW ART FROM SICHUAN”, Hong Kong
“CHINESE CONTEMPORARY OIL PAINTINGS: FROM REALISM TO POST MODERNISM”, Theoremes Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“1st BIENNIAL EXHIBITION OF CHINESE OIL PAINTING”, Beijing, China
“2nd EXHIBITION OF CHINESE OIL PAINTING”, Beijing, China
“1st BIENNIAL ART EXHIBITION”, Guangzhou, China
“2nd DOCUMENTRY EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART”, Guangzhou, China